Today's News: Our Take - Former Miss Venezuela Monica Spear Killed

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Jan 7, 2014 at 5:54 PM

Former Miss Venezuela Monica Spear and her ex-husband, Henry Thomas Berry, were killed during a robbery in Caracas, Venezuela on Monday night, according to The Associated Press.Spear, 29, and Berry, 39, were killed after their car broke down and they ...

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Former Miss Venezuela Monica Spear and her ex-husband, Henry Thomas Berry, were killed during a robbery in Caracas, Venezuela on Monday night, according to The Associated Press.

Spear, 29, and Berry, 39, were killed after their car broke down and they resisted the assailants. Their 5-year-old daughter was spared and is in stable condition after receiving medical attention for unspecified injuries, according to a statement from the prosecutor's office.

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Spear, who was crowned Miss Venezuela in 2004, also starred on soap operas for Telemundo, including Pasion Prohibida.

Venezuela has one of the world's highest murder rates at 79 per 100,000 inhabitants in 2013.

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